Indicating and controlling apparatus



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Patented Nov. 8, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BARRY HOCKEN, OF FOWEY, ENGLAND INDICATING AND CONTROLLING APPARATUS Application filed November 21, 1927, Serial No. 234,837, and in Great Britain. November 30, 1926.

The invention relates to apparatus for efuse with all indicating stations at the same fecting addition and indicating the results level.

of such additions and is particularly appli- Fig. 3 represents a portion of a similar apcable for indicating purposes in connection paratus for use with two stations at dlfierwith a totalizator Wagering system. ent levels.

The primary object of the invention is to Referring first to Fig. 1 which shows a provide an improved apparatus in which the portion of an apparatus capable of dealing additions or sums are indicated by the level with forty horses in a race, operating screws of liquids in tubes. 0 O O O carry cross heads X X X3 0 To save repetition the invention will be X each of which carries two plungers, one hereinafter described in connection with series F F F F corresponding to the horses although it is to be understood that particular horses and the series G G Gr the invention covers all other similar risks G corresponding to grand totals. or chances. These plungers work in transparent tubes 15 A further object of the invention is to pro- H H H H T T T ,T provided with an vide an apparatus in which indicating tubes graduated scales A A A A K K K are provided to show by liquid level the total K The liquid in the tubes is preferably amount laid on each horse and also the grand given distinctive colours and it is to be untotal i. e. the amount laid on all horses. derstood that the operating apparatus shown Preferably a grand total tube is arranged diagrammatically by a screw is intended in alongside each horse tube so that a. visual inthe practical form of the apparatus to take dication of the approximate odds on each theform of a device for giving a predeterhorse is readily given. mined movement for each unit of stake and In the preferred arrangement of totalizamay be part of a coin-free apparatus of tor apparatus constructed in accordance with knownform which will issue a printed rethe invention a number of interconnected ceipt for the amount and the name of the stations are arranged with indicator tubes horse backed. at the same level; on a bet being made at any The various horse total tubes H etc, are one station a proportionate displacement of connected by transmission tubing L L 30 liquid is caused at that station and that L L which does not require to be of accauses equal rise (or fall) in liquid level of curate bore as it is always filledto correthe indicator tube corresponding to that sponding apparatus at other betting stations horse at all stations and also in all the grand and the grand total tubes are all connected total indicators. together by tubing M as well as to the corre' 35 In the accompanying drawings which ilsponding tubes at other stations. 30

lustrate the invention in a diagrammatic The movement of the displacing plungers manner, causes level of the liquid in all connected tubes Fig. 1 represents in elevation one station of to move by the same amount.

a fluid level totalizator with item and grand At any given time, at each station will be total columns, employing displacing plungindicated the total amount laid on each horse ers which leave annular spaces between them and alongside the total amount laid on all and the tubes. horses and the relative heights of liquid in Fig. 2 represents part of an apparatus in adjacent tubes give an indication of the odds. which predetermined amounts of fluid are Referring to Fig. 2 of the drawings this introduced by packed rams in cylinders for illustrates a form of the apparatus in which instead of employing displacers in the form of plungers acting in the indicating tubes, rams 1),, E D E etc., are employed acting in cylinders B C B C The cylinders B B communicate by pipes L L to the open ended horse indicating tubes containing liquid at common level at the various stations, and the cylinders C C are connected by pipes M to all the grand-total tubes; the associated pairs of rams are carried by crossheads X X operated by screws 0 O turned by handle-wheels P P Fig. 3 shows a similar arrangement for operating from one station to give indications at one station at a higher level. In this case the cylinders are duplicated; cylinder B communicates by a horse tube L to stations at the same level and the cylinder B by another horse tube L at an elevated level. Grand total cylinder C, C connects with pipes M and M and with the corresponding stations. The rams D, E, D E are worked off a common cross head J operated by a screw 0 from a hand wheel P.

While the invention has been described in connection with a wagering system, it is, of course, apparent that such is illustrative of a single use only, with such indicated merely by preference. The invention is equally applicable to department stores, for example, in which the totals of the various departments, as well as the grand total for the store, may be readily determined by the use of the device.

1. A totalizator apparatus comprising a plurality of indicating tubes containing liquid, the liquid level in each tube indicating the total stake laid on each risk, and a tube showing the grand total of stakes laid on all risks.

2. A totaliz'ator apparatus comprising a plurality of liquid level tubes indicating the total stakes laid on each risk and a grand total tube alongside each risk tube.

3. A liquid level totalizator comprising a series of parallel graduated liquid level tubes. one corresponding to each risk, a grand total ndicating tube alongside each risk tube, piping connecting all grand total indicating tubes. displacing means in each tube for varying the level of liquid by desired amounts, actuating means for said displacing means so coupled that on moving each actuating means the displacing means for the corresponding risk and grand total tubes are simultaneously operated.

4. A totalizator apparatus comprising a series of liquid level indicating tubes representing risks, a liquid level indicating tube representing grand total. means for displac ing liquid in any risk tube corresponding to the amount laid on said risk, and means for. simultaneously displacing liquid in the grand total tube to add a corresponding amount to the grand total indication.

5. A totalizator apparatus comprising a plurality of tubes, and a plurality of coupled liquid displacers, one of each of said pairs displacing liquid in a specific tube corresponding to said displacer and the second of each of said pairs of displacers displacing a proportional quantity of liquid in a tube common to all the second displacers so as to indicate in said common tube the total displaced by all of the said first displacers into all said specific tubes.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

BARRY HOCKEN. 

